# General License Agreement and Lack of Warranty

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty. The author does not accept responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all. No warranty is made about the software or its performance.

Use and copying of this software and the preparation of derivative works based on this software are permitted, so long as the following conditions are met:

- The copyright notice and this entire notice are included intact and prominently carried on all copies and supporting documentation.
- No fees or compensation are charged for use, copies, or access to this software. You may charge a nominal distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, but you may not charge for the program itself.
- If you modify this software, you must cause the modified file(s) to carry prominent notices describing the changes, who made the changes, and the date of those changes. Please do inform the author about major modifications.
- Any work distributed or published that in whole or in part contains or is a derivative of this software or any part thereof is subject to the terms of this agreement. The aggregation of another unrelated program with this software or its derivative on a volume of storage or distribution medium does not bring the other program under the scope of these terms.

This software is made available as is, and is distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event will the author or his institutions be liable to you for damages, including lost profits, lost monies, or other special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of or in connection with the use or inability to use (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by third parties or a failure of the program to operate as documented) the program, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by any other party, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other tortuous action.

`SOLVATE` is written by Helmut Grubmüller, Theoretical Biophysics Group, Institut für Medizinische Optik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.